Comment on This full video shows just how bonkers the VW Pikes Peak record was

This full video shows just how bonkers the VW Pikes Peak record was

Enlarge (credit: Volkswagen) At the end of June, Volkswagen and French racing driver Romain Dumas did something many of us thought impossible. Using a highly specialized electric vehicle called the "I.D. R Pikes Peak," Dumas raced to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado in under eight minutes, shattering the existing records for EVs by a full minute and the overall record (set by Peugeot and Sebastian Loeb in 2013) by a hefty 16 seconds. Ars was there to see it happen, but truth be told you don't actually see that much of anyone's run at Pikes Peak if you're there in person.

 

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